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Category: Collaboration

  • Polycom Announces Cloud Based Videoconferencing Option

    Polycom…are you serious? THIS was the GAME CHANGING announcement you promised??? This was in my email last week: “REMINDER We’re About to Make History You don’t want to miss this game-changing announcement.” Really??  I wonder if the others who have been there for years are shaking in their boots?? To be fair….maybe I am missing…

  • Blue Jeans Network Grows By 50% in One Quarter

    Blue Jeans Network Grows By 50% in One Quarter

    OK, listen up. I have said this before (like starting in 1999, for those who don’t know that ESnet Collaboration developed one of, if not the, first IP-based cloud video conferencing services in the world)…..BUT…. Cloud based video conferencing is going to kick the worlds ass in a BIG way….this press release is proof, and this is…

  • Bryan Hellard Reviews: Zoom.us

      Zoom.us It’s not often that I am really, really impressed with a product. This is one of those times. Ease of Use Zoom.us required a small download from their website to get started. The only slightly unfortunate thing is that the product requires a login using credentials from either Facebook or Google, for reasons…

  • Evaluating Cloud Based Video Conferencing: VidTel

    (reliable, high quality, virtual meetings) – Scroll down for the YouTube video of a VidTel meeting… A few blogs ago (on TelBitConsulting.com) I proposed how I would evaluate the cloud based video conferencing services that are becoming so popular…here is a summary of what I am looking for: A cloud-based video conferencing service provides an…

  • VidyoWay: Business Class Multipoint Video Conferencing

    The video conferencing world is changing at breakneck speed.   Hold on to your hats peeps……we are in for one screaming fun ride!   Whooohooo… This past week, Vidyo, announced their new “free” (free is  in quotes because I see a requirement that you have to promise to have 50 endpoints in three months…guess that…

  • The Value of Video Conferencing

    Watch for my next blog entry early next week to find out where this picture came from, but, I think this picture says more about the value of video conferencing than words can express. Have a nice weekend!

  • Video Conferencing As We Know It Is Changing: Ready or Not

    Video Conferencing As We Know It Is Changing: Ready or Not

    I have been working in the video conferencing industry since hmmmm, about 1988 and have  been blogging about it since 2006, or so.  Yikes!  So many products, so many conferences, so many changes, so much fun…. Anyway, so much for nostalgia….lets roll with the FUTURE…. The title of this blog entry kinda says it all:…

  • Evaluating Cloud Based Video Conferencing Services

    Evaluating Cloud Based Video Conferencing Services

    OK….I am getting ready to evaluate several cloud based video conferencing services. My definition of a decent cloud based video conferencing service is basic and simple (in theory…in practice, it may be a lot harder): A cloud-based video conferencing service provides an easy-to-use, dial-in, ad-hoc, virtual meeting space for anyone, anytime, anywhere using any endpoint. Before I…

  • VidTel: A Cloud Based Video Conferencing Service

    For those who read this blog, you know one thing:  I love cloud-based video conferencing. But why? Well…..I was sitting back the other day pondering life when it hit me (yeah, I am slow).  I proposed, then designed, the ESnet H.323 architecture starting in 1999, then ultimately put it into production in January 2004:  …

  • The Age of Decentralized Work is Upon Us

    The Age of Decentralized Work is Upon Us

    OK, people….here is the future. If you have teens (or college age early 20’s kids) you have seen this….if you have younger kids….you WILL see it.  So hang in there…. Decentralization of work will happen.  Telecommuting / Telework will be the norm.  And, yes, mobile video conferencing WILL rule the world. Here is why…. The kids…